 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...account with that presented by Captain Millar to the Statistical Section of the British Association. " In the interior part of the square bounded on the east by the Saltmarket, on the west by Stockwell Street, on the north by Irongate, and on the south by the... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1841 - 774 pages
...the persons executed, three were females. There have been only four executions in Glasgow since 1833; three for murder, and one for throwing vitriol with...bounded on the east by Saltmarket, on the west by Stockwell-street, on the north by Trongate, and on the south by the river, and also in certain parts... | |
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - 1842 - 376 pages
...the state of crime, that the health of the lower classes of the community be strictly attended to. In the very centre of the city there is an accumulated...bounded on the east by Salt-market, on the west by Stockwell-street, on the north by Trongate, and on the south by the river, and also in certain parts... | |
 | 1842 - 346 pages
...the state of crime, that the health of the lower classes of the community be strictly attended to. In the very centre of the city there is an accumulated...bounded on the east by Salt-market, on the west by Stockwell-street, on the north by Trongate, and on the south by the river, and also in certain parts... | |
 | 1843 - 534 pages
...degradation of their inhabitants. Captain Miller, the superintendent of police at Glasgow, says — " In the very centre of the city there is an accumulated...unequalled in any other town in the British dominions. There is concentrated everything that is wretched, dissolute, loathsome, and pestilential. These places... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1843 - 792 pages
...C.iptain Miller the valuable superintendent of the police at Glasgow, writes thus: " In the very center of the city there is an accumulated mass of squalid...unequalled in any other town in the British dominions. There is concentrated everything that is wretched, dissolute, loathsome and pestilential. These places... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1845 - 614 pages
...public and private charity for * Mr. Craig'j Evidence, App. I., 4012. the means of subsistence. ... In the very centre of the city there is an accumulated mass of squalid misery, probably unequalled in any other town of the British dominions. . . . There is concentrated... | |
 | 1850 - 342 pages
...the state of crime, that the health of the lower classes of the community be strictly attended to. In the very centre of the city there is an accumulated...interior part of the square, bounded on the east by the Salt Market, on the west by Stockwell Street, on the north by the Trongate, and on the south by... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1868 - 466 pages
...able hand ; — Captain Miller, the valuable superintendent of the police at Glasgow, writes thus: "In the very centre of the city there is an accumulated...unequalled in any other town in the British dominions. There is concentrated every thing that is wretched, dissolute, loathsome, and pestilential. These places... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1905 - 476 pages
...stagnant moisture of the street oozed up."1 "In the very centre of Glasgow," wrote another authority, "there is an accumulated mass of squalid wretchedness...unequalled in any other town in the British dominions. There is concentrated everything that is wretched, dissolute, loathsome, and pestilential. These places... | |
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In the very centre of the city there is an accumulated mass of squalid wretchedness, which is probably unequalled in any other town in the British dominions. 
